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Home Hate Crime 2019 Tables Table 1

Table 1

Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders

by Bias Motivation, 2019

Bias motivation Incidents Offenses Victims1 Known
offenders
2
Total 7,314 8,559 8,812 6,406
Single-Bias Incidents 7,103 8,302 8,552 6,268
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry: 3,963 4,784 4,930 3,550
Anti-White 666 755 775 645
Anti-Black or African American 1,930 2,314 2,391 1,682
Anti-American Indian or Alaska Native 119 126 135 101
Anti-Asian 158 205 215 153
Anti-Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 21 25 26 26
Anti-Multiple Races, Group 134 171 173 82
Anti-Arab 95 122 126 86
Anti-Hispanic or Latino 527 676 693 547
Anti-Other Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry 313 390 396 228
Religion: 1,521 1,650 1,715 1,012
Anti-Jewish 953 995 1,032 602
Anti-Catholic 64 66 66 42
Anti-Protestant 24 24 24 19
Anti-Islamic (Muslim) 176 219 227 145
Anti-Other Religion 88 108 108 56
Anti-Multiple Religions, Group 37 42 44 26
Anti-Mormon 12 14 15 8
Anti-Jehovah's Witness 7 7 7 7
Anti-Eastern Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Other) 44 47 49 34
Anti-Other Christian 49 60 65 23
Anti-Buddhist 5 5 5 5
Anti-Hindu 7 7 7 4
Anti-Sikh 49 50 60 36
Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 6 6 6 5
Sexual Orientation: 1,195 1,395 1,429 1,250
Anti-Gay (Male) 746 867 883 828
Anti-Lesbian 115 142 143 107
Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (Mixed Group) 291 342 357 279
Anti-Heterosexual 17 17 19 14
Anti-Bisexual 26 27 27 22
Disability: 157 169 170 156
Anti-Physical 49 53 53 33
Anti-Mental 108 116 117 123
Gender: 69 80 81 67
Anti-Male 17 18 18 17
Anti-Female 52 62 63 50
Gender Identity: 198 224 227 233
Anti-Transgender 151 173 175 190
Anti-Gender Non-Conforming 47 51 52 43
Multiple-Bias Incidents3 211 257 260 138
  • 1 The term victim may refer to an individual, business/financial institution, government entity, religious organization, or society/public as a whole.
  • 2 The term known offender does not imply the suspect's identity is known; rather, the term indicates some aspect of the suspect was identified, thus distinguishing the suspect from an unknown offender.
  • 3 A multiple-bias incident is an incident in which one or more offense types are motivated by two or more biases.

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